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East Coast Ass Flowers

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art held its 2009 Corporate Benefit on Wednesday night. The honorees were Michael J. Kowalksi, chairman and chief executive of some non-WendyB jewelry place, and my dear friend, Ambassador Carl Spielvogel. (Carl is married to the gorgeous Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, previously mentioned here.) I wore the beautiful Zang Toi gown that I wore in February to the Vanity Fair Oscar party. I figured that the East Coast needed to see the ass-flower gown; the West Coast can’t have all the fun!

Before heading out

We got to view the new American Wing, which was recently reopened with Michelle Obama there to cut the ribbon. At dinner, I had a lovely time talking to my tablemate, Ralph Appelbaum, who designs (non-art) museums, including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and the Planetarium here in New York.

Ass flowers at the museum

MrB and his new pet

I loved that the charming security guard we met on the way out was named Aramis, after one of the three Musketeers.

Aramis kindly posed for a picture

Congratulations again to Ambassador Spielvogel!

UPDATED TO ADD: For those who were wondering, I was wearing the gold Louis Vuitton shoes that Jennine modeled in this post.

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  1. wendy b, you look GORGEOUS. this is one of my favorite dresses and you pull it off perfectly. mr. b is a lucky man.

  2. Man, it’s kind of crazy how beautiful you look. Ass flowers suit you quite well.

  3. you look FANTASTIC in that first picture. WOW!

    have a lovely weekend!!!

    xxx
    sydneygirl

  5. What fun and interesting parties you go to! You look great! Love the hair and the dress.

  10. How fucking fantastic do you look in that dress!!!! Absolutely beautiful. Sorry for the profanity but you look AMAZING and that is the only way to explain it.

  11. Wow! Such a fabulous gown and you look wonderful in it. I didn’t know ass flowers existed – now I’m a fan.

  16. You look fabulous in that dress; Zang should have called it “The Wendy.”

  19. Congratulations to Ambassador Spielvogel!

    And to you for using such excellent judgment in bringing the @ss-flower dress to the East Coast. That is my favorite dress of all time on you.

    I also love the pink lipstick. Though I love your signature red, the pink is a nice departure for a special event.

    I’m curious about your shoes. I can’t see what they look like. Would you be willing to show them to us?

  21. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: No one does formal like you Wendy! You look beautiful. And I love the fauxny here.

  27. Miss J wonders how WendyB can contruct so elegant a post whe she is TOO HOT for WORDS!

  28. You kill in the ass flower gown. Absolutely.

    Sounds like a wonderful affair..even with the non Wendy B jewelry guy.

  29. you look absolutely amazing here & i'm sure you're told this all the time but your jewellery is out of this world! (thanks for stopping by earlier)

  30. Absolutely gorgeous, WB! You are supermodelicious!

    And I love it that you skipped prom to see Madonna (I read that somewhere today…)!

    xoxox,
    CC

  31. That is such a completely sexy dress, in a very classy, old-fashioned way. Good choice!

  32. this sounds like such a cool event! talking to someone so involved in two wonderful museums over dinner must have been fascinating 🙂

  33. darling that Zang dress looks amazing on you!!the back is divine.
    muah x
    marian

  35. You look drop-dead gorgeous, Wendy B! Love the ass flower dress! A dress by any other name wouldn’t look as awesome…or something.

  37. the back of this dress is just too beautiful! And i loove the bright pop of color. PS. Will be emailing you in teh next couple days to see if you can set a few necklaces for me 🙂

  38. Head-turning, jaw-dropping beautiful. That would be you in that dress. Oh, mymymy Miss Wendy, we love it even more than the last time!

    We are off to look at Mr. Appelbaum’s creations, including the Newseum, near and dear to this heart.

    Stunning, simply stunning.
    tp

  42. That pic next to the nude is hilarious. Great dress–you look fantastic!

  43. That dress is gorgeous. You though, my have an obsession with butt adornment…

  44. you have such a fabulous life wendy!

    love that the butt roses came out again, that dress deserves to be worn and worn!

  46. I think people just like saying “ass flowers” – and I echo the comment about the shoes: give us shoe junkies something to ogle!

    You look gorgeous, Wendy! Your smile lights up the place.

    I love Aramis’ name. How cool – that’s one of my favourite books.

  49. Hi my dear-I know you were already awarded this by Lenya, but I’ve done the same-there is an award on my blog for you, to show my appreciation of you stopping by me for so long, LOL!!